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TheBurgess Companywas a U.S. airplane manufacturer between 1910 and 1918.
The business was incorporated in 1910 as the \"Burgess Company and Curtis, Inc.\" (after W. Starling Burgess and Greely S. Curtis, its co-founders with Frank Henry Russell). The company was an offshoot of the W. Starling Burgess Shipyard, of Marblehead, Massachusetts.Burgess was the first licensed aircraft manufacturer in the United States. On February 1, 1911, it received a license to build Wright aircraft from the Wright Brothers, who held several key aeronautical patents. January 1914, the organization became theBurgess Company, a name change to avoid confusion with the Curtiss Aeroplane and Engine Company. Burgess designed and flight tested most of the aircraft that were manufactured at the two plant sites in Marblehead. Curtis was the company\'s financial and engineering adviser and Russell, formerly the manager of the Wright Company\'s Dayton factory, managed their production operations. The Burgess Company was acquired on February 10, 1914, by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. The Burgess Company then operated as a manufacturing subsidiary producing Curtiss\'s naval training aircraft in late 1916 and continued to produce these aircraft under the Burgess name during World War I until its main production facility was totally destroyed by fire on November 8, 1918.The company provided seaplanes and other aircraft to the U.S. military.
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE CLOISONNÉ (ENAMELING) ON BRASS.
ID\'D ON THE REVERSE OF THE THREADED STUD:
PROPERTY OF THE BURGESS CO
8745 < (SERIAL NUMBERED)
NOT TRANSFERRABLE
ID\'D ON THE REVERSE OF THE STUD\'S BRASS THREADED SCREW BACK:
WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. NEWARK, N.J.
DIAMETER: 5/8\"
UNCLEANED
CONDITION IS VERY FINE WITH A FEW SPOTS OF VERY LIGHT CRAQUELURE IN THECLOISONNÉ(ENAMELING)AND A NICE OLD PATINA FROM ITS 106+ YEARS
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